Gregory Donohue wrote:

> I found a couple of sites that have machine-readable versions of the GCVS
> database. I downloaded the databases, in the hopes of writing some Perl
> code to retrieve specific info that I am interested in, particularly the
> 2000.0 RA/Dec numbers. The db descriptions indicate that there should be
> RA/Dec for both epoch 1950.0 and 2000.0. But the actual data base only has
> the 1950.0 coordinates. Here is the location I got the db from:
>
> ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/groups/cluster/gcvs/gcvs/iii/iii.dat
>
> Does anyone know if:
>
> 1) There is a more complete db somewhere? Or
> 2) If this is the latest stuff, then is the db description wrong? Or
> 3) Is there another electronic (PC) way to get this info?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Donohue
>
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Greg,

The GCVS has precession per year in RA and DEC fields that I used to convert to a
1998 and 2000 epoch.

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